Academy Award winner Jane Darwell, born Patti Woodward.

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Description: Actress Jane Darwell sits in a chair wearing a black dress with white trim, holding a notepad in her right hand and a pen in her left. She has a box of facial tissues on her lap. Ms. Darwell won the Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad in the movie adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath. September 28, 1961, was the season debut of The Real McCoys, and many such press photos were sent to papers throughout the U.S. because Ms. Darwell was appearing in the … continued below

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Creator: Unknown. September 28, 1961.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection and was provided by the Oklahoma Historical Society to The Gateway to Oklahoma History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 21 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Description: Actress Jane Darwell sits in a chair wearing a black dress with white trim, holding a notepad in her right hand and a pen in her left. She has a box of facial tissues on her lap. Ms. Darwell won the Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad in the movie adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath. September 28, 1961, was the season debut of The Real McCoys, and many such press photos were sent to papers throughout the U.S. because Ms. Darwell was appearing in the episode “You Can’t Go Home.” She played the part of the 100-year-old matriarch Great Grandma McCoy. Unpublished (various pictures were sent out to U.S. newspapers for the season debut of The Real McCoys.)

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PublishDate: 1961-09-28T00:00:00Z

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  • September 28, 1961

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Academy Award winner Jane Darwell, born Patti Woodward., photograph, September 28, 1961; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc226273/: accessed September 8, 2026), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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